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A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.
Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. [73] A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground. They are commonly referred ...
Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]
Lightning strikes over the Milwaukee area on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Not all lightning hits the ground; most of it stays within the clouds. When it does reach the ground, it travels at around ...
Here’s how to stay safe when lightning strikes. When thunder rumbles, lightning isn’t far behind. About 25 million times a year, lightning strikes the United States, according to the National ...
This gives Lake Maracaibo the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in the world, at 250. [6] The region with the second-most is the village Kifuka, in the mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [7] where the elevation is around 1,700 metres (5,600 ft), receives 232 lightning strikes per square kilometer (600 per ...
Being hit directly by a lightning bolt and becoming part of the main channel of electricity flowing from the cloud to the ground is one of the least common ways to be struck by lightning, Dr. Mary ...
The lightning may be too far away to discern individual flashes. Smooth channel lightning is an informal term referring to a type of cloud-to-ground lightning strike that has no visible branching and appears like a line with smooth curves as opposed to the jagged appearance of most lightning channels. They are a form of positive lightning ...